Giovanna M Tutor in Church End, North London

£65.00 per hour

About Giovanna

Professional, fun, high achieving tutor.

There are three qualities that I hold above all else: kindness, strength, and self-betterment. I apply these to all that I do. They are the reason that I continue to challenge myself, and grow as a student, a teacher and a person. These are qualities that I aim to instill in all my students, too.

My passion is English Literature, and my ultimate career goal is to become a university lecturer. I love to teach, and have always jumped at opportunities to tutor and mentor others. From 2010-2011 I tutored children in KS1,2,3 and 4 (from 5 years to 16 years old) in English Language and Literature. Meanwhile, I taught private guitar lessons.

Since joining Tutorfair I have devoted over 200 hours to my students. I do my utmost to personalise every lesson, and ensure I target my tutee's weaknesses while making the most of their strengths. I aim to build the confidence and ability of all my students, from children who struggle with basic grammar, to adults writing their first novels.

I currently work as an academic proofreader for Proofessor.com and specialise in helping those with English as their second language, and dyslexic clients, find their voice. I firmly believe that the best way to learn is to teach others. I have mentored other students throughout my university career, as well, and aim to be a positive influence for those around me.

I have taken two creative writing courses, and have experience working as a copywriter. My voluntary work, meanwhile has led me to teach a six week creative writing class at a local primary school (in Evington, Leicester). This hugely rewarding opportunity gave me invaluable classroom experience. I also spent 9 months volunteering with the Reader Organisation at Birstall Library (Leicester), running a weekly shared reading group. My work with the Reader is ongoing, and intensely rewarding; I led a South London group, for individuals with a variety of physical disabilities and mental illnesses, from July 2015 - February 2017. I am currently looking into beginning a new group.

My other passions include martial arts, music and food. I became a blackbelt during my GCSEs, and have experience teaching children (three years and up) as well as adults. I am currently Grade 6 level in Rock guitar - meaning I am able to teach beginners.

I am comfortable teaching all ages, and hope to incite a love for learning in my tutees! My friendly, approachable and straight-forward manner make me a favourite with kids of all ages, as well as adults - I know how to make learning fun, achievable and exciting!

*I am able to teach at my home in Chelsea, where I keep a small library of books to lend. I am also happy to tutor at your home, your child's school, or a local library. If you live very far away, I may request travel expenses up-front. My hours are very flexible, so please don't hesitate to get in touch!

Reviews and References

Committed, helpful and

Written by Guy S

I met Giovanna in the first year of my American Studies degree course at the University of Leicester, during which she has helped me in Literature (specifically Classic US Texts, Modern American Literature and other AmLit courses) and in essay writing across the board.

Giovanna is patient, helpful and straightforward. Her methodical approach as a proofreader, peer reviewer and fellow student helped me to view my own writing more objectively and improve steadily. I now feel much more confident in my writing ability, and graduated with a 2:1 (I couldn't be happier!!).

Talented and kind

Written by Hermon B

I would recommend Giovanna without a doubt.

Giovanna has proofread and cut down my University Law essays on a number of occasions. As a law student, writing is imperative to success in the degree. Demonstrative of her caring nature, she has patiently worked alongside me to edit and improve my writing, not stopping until the work had reached a very good standard. I have gone to achieve high 2:1 to firsts in these essays.

In addition to this, she has helped to hone my verbal reasoning skills, teaching me better techniques through practice tests.

Crucially, Giovanna’s humour and patience makes her a joy to work with.

OUTSTANDING TUTOR

Written by Ayesha J

"It takes a special person to light that fire, to raise our children's expectations for themselves and never give up on them, no matter how challenging it might be. All of us are here because, at some point, somebody did that for us." And we were blessed to have Giovanna, that extremely special person in my son's life, who needs no introduction & undoubtedly a STAR TUTOR.

Patient, helpful and hardworking.

Written by Sean L

Giovanna spent so much time working on my story! Weeks of work on her part, and lots and lots of useful advice. I can't recommend her enough to any writers out there. Especialy the ones that are thinking that now might be the time to get someone to look at your work. Get Giovanna to read it!

She is friendly, calm, gave me a new insight into my work and she is very hardworking.

It was a pleasure to work with Giovanna and I will certainly be working with her again.

My writing has improved. I can see the mistakes now that Giovanna has pointed them out. I couldn't have done that without her; she's given me a new perspective on my story.

Best tutor ever!

Written by Jessica G

I'm not sure if I can even put into words how wonderful Giovanna is. The effort, time and knowledge she supplied as my tutor was so unexpected; I've just never had a tutor that cares as much. She looked over several drafts of my plan, kept checking in with me to see how I was getting on and was such an unbelievable help with my university essay! She has such a great eye for detail, structure and analysis. Although I feel more confident with academic essays now, I'll definitely make sure to have more lessons. I just can't stress how great Giovanna is.

Great tutor!

Written by Rita I

I asked Giovanna to review some of my assignments, which consisted of complex scientific explanations. She not only corrected any grammatical/ sentence structure mistakes but she clearly tried to understand what I was writing about and suggesting where more explanation is needed to make the point clearer.
Additionally, she not only provided me with the final corrected version of my assignment but she also had another file with all the highlights, notes and suggestions which, for me, was very educative. All in all, great tutor and would recommend her to anyone!!

Outstanding tutor for 2017!

Written by Philip P

Giovanna teaches A level English Literature to my daughter who is home-educated, and in doing so has taken on the responsibility not of supplementing my daughter's college work, but instead of running the whole syllabus. An outstanding teacher, she oozes passion and energy for the subject, and has given my daughter added confidence to do her best work. We could not have found a better tutor anywhere; Giovanna is a tutor who really cares.

very enjoyable teacher.

Brilliant!

Written by Kate D

Giovanna knows her subject well and has highly effective and engaging teaching methods. She prepares materials relevant to the brief and arrives ready to hit the ground running. She is a warm friendly young woman, my daughter finds her easy to relate to and work with. We are so happy she was recomended to us. Thanks so much. We do not know the outcome yet but whatever it is we are extremely grateful.

Simply Brilliant

Written by Kate D

Giovanna came to us highly recommended. It is hard to do justice to Giovanna's many skills as a tutor but I will try. She always arrived at sessions highly prepared and it was obvious she had spent considerable time planning the lessons. She was a mine of information on finding helpful recourses. Giovanna was a patient, engaged, relaxed tutor, and for our daughter I really can't imagine finding anyone better. We did try others. I think the thing that sticks out the most for me, was her enabling way of teaching, she is so positive and I believe her influence gave my daughter the confidence she needed to go for it. We were literally overjoyed when Clara's GCSE results came through. Thank you Giovanna!